Today 4th of december 2015 is an historical day. Hubzilla 1.0 is out.
The Hubzilla developers would like to introduce the Hubzilla project to the world. Basically what there is a community software platform that links different website communities together into something much larger.
It’s part CMS, part blog, part social network, part personal cloud
and all exciting and different in the way we provide privacy and single sign-on across all the connected communities; throughout the internet.
This isn’t actually a new project. This has been existing around for years perfecting decentralisation technologies to the point where small inter-connected sites can compete with many of the features and economies of scale of large corporate server farms. There is no single thing that defines how Hubzilla is different. Instead it is a large collection of features which define what it can do for you. I will let some of the other project developers and members describe it in their own words…
Hubzilla is powerful and, in its own way, simple. Through its many options and features, it can be pretty much all you need it to be. The revolutionary zot protocol keeps you connected to the web, even when your own server may be down. Like a slider between parallel universes, your zot identity moves across the grid as needed. From a simple webpage to dynamic, fine-tuned communication, Hubzilla fills the bill for anonymity, privacy, authentication, and control, be it for individuals, groups, or businesses.
To me Hubzilla is an exciting piece of software. The most elaborate ACL management I have seen so far. It can be a complete digital home. It is scalable from a small family hub to share the obvious thoughts, events, discussions, photos, files up to commercial hubs focusing on publishing or selling stuff. The interoperability between these hubs is amazing and just much more advanced and transparent than any other attempts that I have seen before (openID etc). The versatility Hubzilla can be used is awesome, with some more work I see it being a great tool for soundfile sharing, playlist sharing. Think spotify interactive. This still is quite a way to go but the groundwork has been done.
Thanks for this great piece of code. Proud supporter, even if the monthly donation is small.